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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
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It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.
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We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.
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Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
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Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.
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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
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I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
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Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited we'd never know what hit us.
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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
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To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.
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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
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'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.
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This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
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